The article specifies the essence of creativity, structural components (motivational-need, contentprocedural and productive-resultative, social administrative), criteria, indicators and levels of its formation as an important characteristic of pedagogical professionalism. An experimental program for the formation of creativity by means of the educational process has been developed as a system of interrelated and interdependent elements. It was based on the model of the formation of a creative personality.

Creative Activity, Staged Nature of Education, Model of a Creative Personality, Pedagogical Conditions.